Group Process& Intentional Rel

Catalog description

This course emphasizes the development of foundational skills in therapeutic use of self, intentional relationship and forms of therapeutic reasoning for the delivery of occupational therapy practice models for prevention and health and wellness in a wide variety of contexts and practice arenas, including emerging practice arenas. Foundational knowledge and skills are developed so students will be able to form therapeutic relationships and participate as effective group members to plan and to lead group activities in appropriate contexts of practice in both physical and mental health settings across the lifespan. Content will include principles of group dynamics, models of group development, principles of group leadership, processes involved in planning and implementing groups to allow the student to recognize how the different approaches allow the therapist to become a therapeutic agent of change and to understand that the therapeutic approaches selected may be a product of the model of therapy employed for the delivery of occupational therapy practice.